Starting device for explosion-engines.



EATENTED AUG. 4, 1908.

H. c. BAILEY; STARTING DEVICE FOR EXPLOSIOE ENGINES.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY 18, 19071..

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Applicatroh filed May 18, 1907. Serial No. 374,50. e

To all when; it may concern:

Be it. that I, HOWARD C. BA1LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia. Pen11sylvanis,-hzive invented certain Impmrements in Starting Devices for Enplosienjngines, of which the follpwmg is a specification.

One object @i my inventionis to provide a. device of a simple and "compact nature whereby an explosive engine, such as may. be used to pnopel motor vehicles, may be given the few preliminary rev0lut1onsneces-- ssr v to start it, with the expenditure of but relatively little physical energy on the port of the operstee.

It is further desired to provide a device of the general character above noted, which may be conveniently operated from the driver's seat of a motor vehicle and which will be automatically disconnected from the engine mechanism as soon as the engine is started. i

Another object of the invention is to provide a start ng device for an explosive en gine of such a nature that its actuating spring may be wound up by the engine itself after this has once l ne-a1 started; being automatically disconn d from the engine after the winding has proceeded to a predetermined extent.

The shove other advnntageous ends I secure as here nafter set forth, reference be-s ing had to the accompanying drawings, in

which Figure 1,. is aside elevation to some extent disgrennnstieell and partly in section, illustrsting the ss sratus comprising one form of my inven' Fig. 2, is an end elevation of a portion or the gearing employed in the apparatus shetrn in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, is a side elevation of the fly wheel and the automaticclutch carried thereby; Fig. 4, is a side elevstio venrion inw nhand operated clutch is einpioyed in p '03 of the automatic clutch; Fig. 5, is an e243 elevation of a per ion of the geek usedin ponnection with the apps- T3125 snown in Zlg. 4; Fig. 6, is a side elevatron a form of my invention in which the stszi-ing spring may be wound either i) or by engine power; Fig. 7,

on on a larger scale than that f Fig 5. Iluszrsting certain detail features of my Fig. 8, is a side elevation )ecial form of clutch which -nyed 111 connection with my ist rating a form of my in invention, and Fig.9, is aside elevation illus trati'n a form: of swl controll' device o f mg preferably employe by me. I

In Figs. 1 to 3 of the above drawings, A-

relpresentse supporting frame work u on .w ich are mounted bearings a, a an a,

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bracket" a. Said. bearings and brackets serve as means of support for an extension ofthe mainsheft B of the explosion engine, which it is desired to start by my invention, and this' shaft is provided at one end with the ordinary stertlng crank!) and 'a clutch b v whereby said crank'may'be connected at wlll' tb said shaft. The fly. wheel of the-engine is indicated at b and has fixed to oneend of its hub a. plate 6 on -which are mounted three pflwls 6 limited as to their movementby pins or other M suitable forms of stops 6.

Upon the engine shaft ere mounted two sleeves C and C, the letter of which has rigidly fired to it a ratchet Wheel :5 mounted.-

upon it adjacent to the plate I) on the fly. w

eel so as tobe cesble of being engaged b the pawls b, ally extending arm 0'. A relatively heavy metallic spring D has its outer end connected to a pin 0 pro ecting from the arm a and-has its inner end connected with the sleeve C by means of a screw 0.

A gear Wheel 0 is rigidly keyed or other- It a o has fixed to it a radiwise fixed to the sleeve C and is connected;

through an intermediate ear 0 to a. gear'c' fixed on' the shaft c. This latter shaft is mounted in bearings on the bracket 0 and in a frame a, in any desired manner. The shaft 6 carries at its end a beveled inioncf meshing with the teeth of a heve gear e mount-ed upon a. suitable spindle carried on.

the frame a; this gear being provided with ratchet teeth at it's periphery and having a holding pawl e. Loosely mounted upon the shaft or spindle for this gear, is an oscillatory arm 6 connected.through a link e to a hand lever e.

With the above described arrangement of parts the oscillation of the. hand lever e on its pivot causes asimilar movement.- of the arm a and as this is provided with a pawl e which engages the ratchet teeth of the gear e, this latter is intermt-tently turned.

It will be noted, hen-ever, that when it is desiredto start the'engine, the brake mechanism is firstset. or some other means, such a holding device, is pro ided for tempo: rarily preventing the revolution of the engine shaft B. Consequently as the shaft e is turned by thc oscillat ion of the. lever c, the spring D is wound, since the-movement of 0", c" and c to the sleeve C. Since the engine shaft is held, the arm c'cannot be turned untions to the engine shaftordinarily required to cause the engine to start.

It is obvious that when the engine be comes self-actuating, its speed almost instantly rises to a point in excess of that of the ratchet wheel 0 which is turned by the spring D, even if said wheel has not already come to rest, and-in any case the speed of the engine is sufficient to cause the pawls If to move out of engagement of the ratchet wheel 0 and to be held out of such engag ment under the action of centrifugalfore'e as long as the engine operates. \Yhen, however, the engine is stopped, one or more of the pawls will fall, under the action of gravity, into engagement with the ratchet teeth, 'so that the device is again ready to be started.

The device forming the subject of my invention is usually employed in the starting of explosion engines used in motor vehicles and under these conditionsthe operating lever e is placed adjacent to the drivers seat. As a consequence, the engine may be more easil started than with the well known cran although as illustrated in Fig. '1 this is usually rovlded for use in emergencies. Inasmuc as the work of winding the spring is performed at a relatively low rate, it will If desired, I may arrange the various parts as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, in which case the gear c may be omitted, while the gear 0 is mounted upon a sleeve C carrying a plate a". This latter plate is connected through a. pin 0 with the outer end of the. spring D, while the inner end of this latter is connected through a sleeve C with the. movable member I) of a clutch. The other member I) of the clutch is rigidly fixed to the fiy wheel I), while a lever f pivoted to any suitable support, is connected to the movable clutch member which, by means of 'a hand bar f, may be shifted into and out of engagement with the other clutch member. The intermediate bearing a not onlv its outer ends so as to fit into an annular member on the fly whcel.- In this case, I

I provide a brake b for holding the fly wheel said shaft is transmitted through the gears fromrcvolution during the time in which that when the engine is operating under normal conditions. this brakei-s released and the clutch member 11 is held away from the clutch member b by means of the spring a.

When it is desired to start the cngine', the hand rod f is moved so as to throw the two clutch members 7' and 1) into engagement and the brake. shoe fis applied to' the fly wheel. The spring is thenwound as previously described, and in order to give-the engine the few preliminary revolutions necessary, the brake b" is suddenly released, when the unwinding of the spring turns the lly wheel and through it revolves the main.

shaft of the engine. Assoon as this is driven by its own power, the increased speed of the ily wheel and of the clutch member 6 causes the clutch member b? to be moved outward so that said parts are automatically dis con-- nected; the spring a" serving to retain the member b" in its disconnected position.-

In Figs. 6, T, and S, niy device is illustrated as so arranged that the spring D may,wl-ien desired, be wound by hand or may be connected to the engine after this has been started, so that it performs the work of winding said spring. In such cascthe shaft 4 has fixed to it another car wheel 9 and this meshes with'a gear 9 fixed to a movable clutch member 9 loose-on the engine shaft. The second member g of this clutch is fixed to the shaft B and the parts are so arranged that the hand barf may, througha lever f=, cause the movable clutch member g* to be coupled to the engine shaft of the clutch member g. Underthesc conditions it -is obvious that the winding shaft, 0. will be driven from the engine shaft and will consequently wind the spring D. In order that such winding may not proceed beyond a predetermined point, I provide a bell crank lever II having one arm 7: so arranged as to be acted on by one of the convolutions of thes ring D; its other arm being connected t1rough the hand bar f to thelcver f.

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\Yith this arrangement, when the spring D is wound to a predetermined point, it causes the turning of the lever if upon its pivot. and

such a movementof the hand bar as will then In the latter case, the sleeve C has extended through it a shaft section B carrying adjacent to the fly wheel I), a plate i connected to the outer end of the spring D by means of a pin 0 This plate, as shown in Fig. 8, has

groove in the clutch member a, and thereby mounted upon it a number of swinging fingel-s 2' each provided with a stop *1 whereby their. revolution is prevented beyond a cert ain oint. Upon the adjacent face of the fly w eel b, I mount a progtecting stud i and 5 it is obvious that when t engaged by one of the ngers iso that ower .is transmitted from thespring to t e iiy wheel through said finger and its stop .13.

VFhen, however, the en ine is moved b its own power, the fingeis t are either hel out of the way of the stop if by gravity, or, as shown in Fig. 8, turned over by it sees to rest against the stops '1',- out of the way.

Then however, the engine is stopped and the plate i again turned underthe action of the s ring 1), when this begins to be wound, the y wheel, through saidstud, is again cou led to the s id spring as before de 29 scri ed; In winding the spring by hand, I may enrploy, if desired, a bralre'shoe' I) operative on thefiy wheel, and when such win 'ng is done b means of the engine, a brake I) is ap- 5 plied to the piste 'i so as to hold this from turning indep endentl of the fly wheel. The

brake shoe b may see be used in'conjunctron with my ivmding lever attachment 1ndependently or the automatic wlndn systern, for the driver may throw onsaid rakeshoe while the engine is running and wind up the spring throu h the medium of the hand lever, thus holding said spring in condition for instant starting of the engine after 5 its next stop.

In starting high power en ines in which there is reat compression to e overcome in giving 1; e few prelmnnary revolutions, I may use a series or compression relief cocks 40 operative from the driver's seat so as to be instantlyclosed onthe first series of explosions of the engine.

'I claim: 1. A starting device fo internal combustion engines, consisting of a spring, a ratchet wheel connected to one end of the spring,

meansattached tothe opposite end of thespring for winding the same, with a rotatable su porting body connected to the en- 59 inc an having a pawl or pawls placed to' e capable of engaging the teeth of the ratchet wheel, said pawls being placed to disengage said teeth and remain in discon nec'ted positions under the action of centri-- e engine shaft is being turned by the s ring D, said stud is pawls capable ofengaging the ratchet wheel, and means'for turning the gear wheel to wind up the spring, substantially as described. i The combination of an engine shaft, two slaavesnnountedzthereon, one within the other, a spring having one ofits ends at tached to oneof the sleeves and its other end. attached to the other sleeve, a ratchet wheel fixed to one of the sleeves and a gear wheel fixed to the other sleeve, a structure connected to the engine shaft provided with pawls ca ble of engaging the ratchet wheel, an means for turning the gear wheel to wind up the spring, said means including an auxilia shaft having a gear' meshing with said rst'gear, a ratchet wheel coir nected to said auxiliary shaft, and a lever carrying'a pawl for periodically turning said second ratchet wheel, substantially as described.

4. A device for starting explosive engines consisting of a shaft, a structure thereon provided with a plurality of pawlspivoted to it,

a ratchet wheel placed to be engaged by said pawls, an arm connected to said ratchet Wheel, a sleeve mounted on the engine shaft,

a s ring having its inner end connected to sai sleeve and its outer end connected to the A arm, with hand operated mechanism for turning said sleeve to wind up thespring, substantially as described,

5. The combination of an engine shaft, a sleeve thereon, a spring havim one end con nected to the sleeve, a clutdh having one member connected to the engine shaft and the other to the second end of the s ring, I means for winding said 5 ring inclu ing a gear wheel connected to t 1e said sleeve, an auxiliary shaft having second gear meshing with said first gear, a beveled inion on the' auxiliary shaft, a ratchet whee having beveled teeth meshing with the said beveled pinion, a pawl for preventing movement of the ratchet wheel in one direction,-a lever carrving a second pawl operative upon the ratchet wheel, and a hand lever connected to said first lever, for oscillating the same, substant-ially as described.

6. The combination in a starting device ;1 5 for an explosive engine, of an engine shaft having one member of a clutch, a second clutch member capable of being connected to ,the first clutch member, a s ring having one end connected to the secont clutch member, 12

gearing operatively connected to the-other end of said spring, and hand operated means for actuating said gearing to wind the spr ng, said clutch being constructed to automate.

ically disconnect the engine from the spring 5 when the speed of the shaft exceeds that of the clutch member attached to the spring, and including means whereby its members are maintained disconnected, substantially.

as described.

7. In a starting device for explosivelengines, the combination with the engine of an auxiliary shaft, a spring having one end op era-tively connected thereto, a clutch having one member connected to the other end of the spring and its second member connected to the engine shaft, a nand operated device for winding the spring having mechanism connecting it with the auxiliary shaft, and auxiliary mechanism also connectedto the auxiliary shaft whereby. the latter may be connected at will with the engine shaft to wind the spring by power, substantially as described.

-- mechanism for connecting at will said engine shaft with the auxiliary shaft for winding the spring by power, substantially as described. 9. Thecombination in a. startin device I for explosive'engines, of an engine sliaft, an

auxiliary shaft, a spring one end ope? tively connected to said auxiliary shaft, a clutch having one end operatively connected to the second end of the spring and its second member connected to the engine shaft, mechanism for connecting at \viil said engine shaft with the auxiliary shaft for winding the spring by power, means for vrinding the spring by hand, and means for automatically disconnecting the engine shaft and the auxiliary shaft when the spring has been wound to a predetermined extent, substantially as-decribed.

10. The combination in a stat-tin device for explosive engines, of an engine shaft, an auxiliary shaft, a spring having one end connected to said auxiliary shaft, means for connecting the other end of the spring to the enginc shaft under predetermined conditions, mechanism for driving the auxiliary shaft from the engine shaft including a clutch, and a second clutch interposed between the .-.pring and the engine shaft capable of automatically disconnect-ir said trro parts when the engine shaft reaches a predetermined speed, with auxiliary hand operated means for winding the spring, substantially as described.

11, In a starting device for explosive engines, the combination with an engine shaft, of a clutch having one member connected to said shaft, an auxiliary shaft, means for connecting said auxiliary shaft to the other member of the clutch, means for connecting or disconnecting said clutch members at will, a spring connected to the auxiliary shaft, a device operated by the spring for automatic- 'mine point, substantially as described.

ally disconnecting the clutch members under predetermined conditions, and means for driving the engine shaft from the spring until the s need of the shaft reaches a predeter- -12. 111 a starting device for explosive engines, the combination with the engine shaft,

of a clutch having one member connected to sald shaft, an auxiliary shaft, means for connecting said auxiliary shaft to the other member of the clutch, means for connect-in or disconnecting said clutch members at "'vi a spring connectedio the auxiliary shaft, 0. device operated by the spring for automatic; ally disconnecting the clutch members under predetermined conditions, and automatic clutch mechanism between the sprin and the shaft constructed to maintain sai two parts in o erative connection aslong as the speed of t e engine shaft is below a predetermined oint, substantially as described. .7

13. n a starting device for explosive engines, the combination of an engine shaft, a spring, means for driving the engine shaft from the sprin a clutch having one member connected to t lie engine shaft and the other loose thereon, means for winding said spring including a shaft driven from said loose memher of the clutch when said member is con nected to the engine shaft, a hand operated device for actuating the spring winding shaft, and hand operated means for actuating said clutch, substantially as described. 14. In a starting device for explosive en gines, the combination of an engine shaft, 9. spring, means for driving the engine shaft. from the spring, a. clutch having one member connected to the engine shaft and the other loose thereon, means for winding said spring including a shaft driven from said loose member of the clutch when said member is connected to the engine shaft,'a hand operated device for actuating the spring winding shaft, with hand operated and automatic means for actuating said clutch, substantially as 'described.

15. In a. starting device for gas engines, the combination of an-engine shaft, a clutch having one member connected to said shaft, a Winding shaft connected to the second member of the clutch, a. spring capable of being wound by said driving shaft, means for actuating the engine shaft from the spring, said means being arranged to automatically disconnect said parts when the engine shaft turns at a predetermined speed, and

means for o' crating the clutch, substantially as described 16. In a. device for starting explosive engine-s, the combination of an engine shaft, a clutch having one member connected thereto, a gear wheel connected to the second member of the clutchand loose on the engine shaft, a. winding shaft having a gear meshing with said first gear, hand operated means for i a i turning said winding shaft, a spring connected thereto. means for connecting the winding shaft and the auxiliary shaft, a structure con Ult'lfld to the spring'having means whereby it is connected to the engine shaft onl so long as the speed of the engine shaft is less than the speed of said structure, with a hand operated device for operating said clutch, substantially as described.

17. In a shining device for explosive eng nes, the combination of an engine shaft, a rintt'h having one member connected thereto. a gear wheel connected to the second :m-mbci of the clutch and loose on the engine shaft, a winding shaft having a gear meshing with the said first gear, hand operated means spring, a clutch capable of operative-1y connecti-ng one end of the spring with the said shaft, and means operative independently of the engine mechamstnattached to the other end of the 5 ring for winding the same by a SUCCGiO11 o intermittent impulses, substantially as described.

19. The combination of an engineshaft, a spring, a clutch capable of operatively connecting one end of the spring with the said shaft, and constructed to automatically disconnect said parts when the speed of the shaft exceeds a predetermined amount, and hand operated means connected to the other end of the spring, the said means being constructed to intermittently deliver a series of 'urning impulses to wind the spring independentlv of the engine shaft, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I'ha've signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- HOWARD C. BAILEY.

Witnes es:

'11. E. Snnen, Jos. H KLEIN. 

